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ReviewPharmacy (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Global Forum on Quality Assurance in CE/CPD: Assuring Quality across Boundaries.

Jennifer Baumgartner, Catriona Bradley, Bronwyn Clark, Colleen Janes, Elizabeth Johnstone, Michael Rouse, Arthur Whetstone

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Review in Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Jennifer BaumgartnerContinuing Pharmacy Education (CPE) Provider Accreditation, Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, Chicago, IL 60603, USA.
Catriona BradleyIrish Institute of Pharmacy, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin D02 FP84, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-4256-6593
Bronwyn ClarkAustralian Pharmacy Council, Canberra, ACT 2609, Australia.
Colleen JanesCanadian Council on Continuing Education in Pharmacy, St. John's, NL A1B 1W1, Canada.
Elizabeth JohnstoneProfessional Development, College Education and Training, Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand, Wellington 6142, New Zealand.
Michael RouseInternational Services Program, Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, Chicago, IL 60603, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0640-9184
Arthur WhetstoneCanadian Council on Continuing Education in Pharmacy, St. John's, NL A1B 1W1, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As a result of the globalization of access and provision of continuing education and continuing professional development (CE/CPD), the national CE/CPD accreditation organizations of Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, United Kingdom and United States formed the Global Forum on Quality Assurance of Continuing Education and Continuing Professional Development (GFQACE) to investigate and develop means of recognizing CE/CPD across boundaries. Two priorities were identified at their first meeting in 2016: (1) the development of an accreditation framework and (2) the identification of models and approaches to mutual recognition. The GFQACE approved an accreditation framework and facilitated review approach to mutual recognition in 2018 and is currently working on implementation guides. As background to the work of the GFQACE, this article provides a brief history of continuing education (CE) and continuing professional development (CPD) and discusses the value and benefits of CE/CPD to professional development of pharmacy professionals, innovation of pharmacy practice and the provision of quality patient care. Due to the essential role of CE/CPD accreditation in enabling recognition across boundaries, the nature and role of accreditation in defining, assuring and driving quality CE/CPD is described. Four conclusions regarding the broad sharing of perceptions of quality CE/CPD, the potential for expansion of the GFQACE and the benefits to pharmacy professionals, providers and pharmacy practice are discussed.

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accreditationcontinuing educationcontinuing professional developmentinternational

Identifiers

PMID32659955
PMCPMC7558479

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